Links to all these mods are in the video description. Rome seriously is an amazing time with them and I cannot WAIT to see what the RTR: Imperium Surrectum team do with the Roman faction in the next few updates. Let me know what you think below and if there are any other mods that are worth checking out to play as Rome! Also my mistake it's actually Wibblywobblywonder who is the main creator of the Age of Justinian mod!
Ow you have read my comment, amn I changed it because the mistakes in typing. But anyway, I really hope that you (and a lot more people) check it out. It's so much more fun to start a DEI campaign in 229BC. I would also suggest to use the realistic expansion mod for DEI. And if you start as Rome, its so much fun with the Illyrian war, then afther that the historic things that will happen or you have to do. It's just great men. Let me know what you think off it. And I really hope there comes a revieuw, because believe me some people are like me, and hate the (especially 278bc) or 272bc startdate for grand campaign. I really like the 229bc startdate a lot more. Have a great day further sir.
I'm genuinely surprised you loved Age of Justinian. It's a very niche mod that not a lot of people talk about and is basically my go-to (or well at this point only) Attila game session I ever indulge in. I would play 1212 AD but it gets corrupted every time. Well done T! it makes me feel better that I'm not the only 555 AD fan out there haha.
I think I fell upon Age of Justinian thanks to one of your video two years ago or so ? This discovery made Attila one of my favorite games. I owe you one ! (or rather you owe me for the time I spent on it - so many hours lost...) Thanks man, your videos are always a pleasure to watch.
Thanks for talking about 555ad, easily one of the best historical mods for attila and really cool roman campaign ! They next major update is coming soon with a complete reskin of general, faction leader and skins for many factions, new roster for armenia, many new mercenaries, AOR for many roman units, buff for some nomad minor faction and blemmies so they are actually more of a threat for ERE. Roman campaign is going to be harder and even nicer than before !
Divide et Impera is the GOAT of TW mods. I play it constantly and I get amazing joy out of it. It makes almost every faction enjoyable and unique. I just love it.
@@Jan.jan2024 It's a videogame. You will never reach true realism. And most people don't have 200 hours for 1 campaign. They play like 2 hours per day max. Most only during weekends.
Who could have ever thought CA leaving their historical original fanbase behind for a decade or two would spawn so many insanely great mods, even talking about cornering themselves without new stuff to do, yet here we are with mods upon mods that all easily could have been a proper ip, expansion or even DLC's. Great video as always Terminator, keep up the good work!
Did you know of Expeditions: Rome or did you just find the music by chance, hah. Such a cool game that few people know of. Applicable to the whole Expeditions series really. Anyway, thanks for the vid! Always nice watching your content.
For me i just like to add to this great list, the Age of Bronze from Rome 2 and Caesar in Brittania for Thrones of Britannia this is in Beta but the ideia of the mod ia incredible, what Royal Lifeguard and the boys are doing for this forsaken game is awesome i really loved to test for then, and the units and map are amazing, when be finish for sure will become my favorite mod for Thrones by far
I playtested Anisvara's first mod that got big, his Rise of Islam, and helped him with some early balancing stuff before he got more people that could help more. I remember it was during my last couple semesters when I was both going to and working at my school, and was disappointed I couldn't do more, because from the very first battle I could tell the mod was going to go far. When he was about 2/3 of the way through making it, he asked me what times in Roman history I thought would be good to cover in an overhaul afterward, that didn't already have excellent overhauls. I suggested Justinian and Belisarius among others (I think I said a Sertorian War mod, and Severus, and Diocletian as a nice follow-up to the base Empire Divided). I also remember that I was learning about the Germans at the time, a people I don't know the history of well (the HRE is HARD history to remember), but I remember suggesting making the focus on the "three Romes", Roma itself at the heart of Western Christendom, Constantinople, and the "proto-Holy Roman Empire" that was the Germanic (Frankish, Gothic and Lombard) control of most of Rome's old territory, though obviously a few hundred years before the actual HRE. Couple centuries later you would have these three powers controlling most of Europe, and this period is where they either were created, or took over absolute cultural hegemony. Late Antiquity into the Early Middle Ages is a hard time to study, or make much about. In Europe, North Africa, Central and East Asia, at least. The Middle East is a bit easier, only two major powers in most of the region for most of the period.
I would have to agree, the Age of Justinian is probably the best mod for Attila Total War. The modder has a few other mods that cover later time periods, but I always though the Age of Justinian was the best he did.
My dream "Roman mod" for a Total War would actually be for Three Kingdoms. Imagine a campaign where you control a roman expedition into chinese lands and arriving during the tumultuous three kingdoms period, slowly re-establishing order and ultimately gaining vying for imperial power and founding an "Eastern Empire". The faction could have access to cool hybrid sino-roman units for battle, unique roman buildings and a special "romanisation" mechanic to track the conversion of your settlements.
Same. I always loved the Legionnaire mod for the game. I even tried to work out how to mod the game....and miserably failed. but that idea is just so....inviting.
Hey Terminator please do a mod revieuw on DEI but the startdate is 229 BC. It's on steam, and it has fresh mechanics. You really should check it out! Because the (sub)mod deserves a lot more attention! Also much more fun to start in 229bc especially with Rome (actually with any faction imo). So please revieuw it. Also guys who read try it yourselves. You just need dei (all parts) and choose your dei submods. But before the 3 parts you put DEI 229 BC. Have fun!
I think I've seen one before? "Total War: Spartacus Rises". I have no clue if it's updated or not, and I have never played it or seen a review on it. just seen its icon whilst browsing the workshop. Hope it helps.
@@S.P.Q.Rrespublicas last time I saw it was at a very early stage, with no campaign just customized battles but I'll definitely check it out again. Thanks for the heads up!
Honestly, I believe that all these modders should try to make their own strategy game. They have so mych love for the genera and so much talent to boot they could probably make a much better TW-like than anything CA pulled out these past 8 years. It's nice to see them working their hardest to make TW games even better (and even fix the mess CA left behind some times...) But I feel like they're wasting their talent doing what should've been CA's job. They 100% deserve a project of their own
I don't know about the mods slapping down armies and automatically taking your territories without a fight. That sounds like it's more linear and story driven, which is pretty cool I guess. But I like to have more control and complete control, and be able to scout those things out. Or prepare for those things at least
with the imperium surrectum version it shows that it is possible to expand the amount of regions within a certain geographic area aka stop missing out important cities and towns. so it shows that the popular statement of "oh we cant expand the amount of regions in a certain area so cant increase the amount of important cities" isnt true and it can be done. so the other version it can be such as divide et impera where yes i agree the best mod version but still it miss important towns and cities which i think it should be its focus now.
Terminator, I assume when you say Divide et Impera has "good combat" over vanilla Rome II, you mean you like battles that last 45 minutes? Because that is not a universally agreed upon standard. I don't even know where it comes from in this community because even classic RTW had relatively short pitched battles (especially if you can get a chain route), only sieges took the most time because of bottlenecking and moral boosts from the town center. Otherwise good list. I appreciate your "Attila on Steroids" graphic, that gave me a good chuckle 😄
well dei is great because it has submods. there are classic submods for faster combat too, which have been there since like the mod came into existence ! so yeah DeI is easily #1 because of its scheer scope, ambition, support and modylarity compared to others
@@nazdhillon994 I've heard of the submods but haven't really gotten around to trying them with DEI. I tend to go through phases with Total War, I play it for a few weeks, finish a campaign or two and then burn out and I don't play again for a few months lol
DEI is a great modification. The length of battles and the variety of units are appropriate. If someone wants quick battles, let them play vanilla Rome.
there are a sub mod for that. and to be honest in older devide et impera patches the hoplite to hoplite combat in cities is just to long, i remember some sieges needing an hour, but thankfully they tuned it down a little bit.
9:20 eh, amazing? It's mediocre at best, if you are going to make events in the game don't make the player lose the region instantly, make the armies spawn and give the player a chance to defend these regions. I remember a very old mod for Medieval 2, Call of Warhammer that did this, tons of scripted invasions but they never took the settlement instantly, you always had the chance to defend yourself properly and at least do some damage.
Returning player after years away. Playing Carthage in DEI and I cannot win a battle. Enemy factions deploy light missile troops that's repeatedly swap me. Frustrating.
I totally disagree with DEI. Yeah it's good, but you said it yourself: EB is Lightyears ahead. Mods in rtw and m2tw showed you new models, cities, animations, you name it! In Rome 2, no such tools are present for such a thing. DEI is a great COULD HAVE.
When you mention Atilla and DEI then you know the video just got frivolous there The pace in DEI suck, The balance in DEI suck, its a new game and have nothing to do with Rome 2
WARS OF THE GODS-ANCIENT WARS for Rome 2 has all the historical Roman legions...DEI does not. Wars of the Gods has WAY better battles and all sorts of different types of campaign sub mods, even a realism type for those DEI players that like that type of game play. You are sounding like an commercial for Dei mod.? And you did not mention Roma Surrectum 3 or SPQR for Rome Total War...best game play for the Romans.
